net: reject creation of netdev names with colons

colons are used as a separator in netdev device lookup in dev_ioctl.c

Specific functions are SIOCGIFTXQLEN SIOCETHTOOL SIOCSIFNAME

Signed-off-by: Matthew Thode <mthode@mthode.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 8f9710c62e20..962ee9d71964 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ bool dev_valid_name(const char *name)
                 return false;
 
         while (*name) {
-                if (*name == '/' || isspace(*name))
+                if (*name == '/' || *name == ':' || isspace(*name))
                         return false;
                 name++;
         }